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HDR directplay - Phaedron - 2024-01-15
Struggling to find an answer to this one.
I am trying to play 4k HDR content.
When I play a film in Jellyfin Media Player (windows) it shows as direct playing, says the video range is HDR10 but from what I can tell the video is not displaying as HDR. Based on my eyes and what I expect HDR content to look like and using the brightness slider in windows HDR menu for SDR content brightness (which dims or brightens the movie, which I believe means windows is seeing it as SDR).
Looking for guidance on how to get this to display properly. Happy to provide any other details that would help resolve this.
RE: HDR directplay - tmsrxzar - 2024-01-15
windows barely supports hdr, play the file directly in mpv (without jellyfin at all) and take a screenshot, play it in jellyfin media player and take a screenshot, open both screenshots for a side by side
RE: HDR directplay - TheDreadPirate - 2024-01-15
Give Jellyfin MPV Shim a try. My understanding is that there are some limitations with how JMP renders video that makes displaying actual HDR impossible. But MPV Shim doesn't have those limitations.
https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-mpv-shim/releases
RE: HDR directplay - Phaedron - 2024-01-15
(2024-01-15, 03:28 PM)tmsrxzar Wrote: windows barely supports hdr, play the file directly in mpv (without jellyfin at all) and take a screenshot, play it in jellyfin media player and take a screenshot, open both screenshots for a side by side
Thanks for the response. So no good to use windows then. Would I have better luck with Jellyfin player in Linux? As far as I'm aware HDR isn't supported in Linux either.
If I want to play 4k HDR 7.1 bluray rips what is my best client option?
RE: HDR directplay - tmsrxzar - 2024-01-15
(2024-01-15, 03:34 PM)Phaedron Wrote:(2024-01-15, 03:28 PM)tmsrxzar Wrote: windows barely supports hdr, play the file directly in mpv (without jellyfin at all) and take a screenshot, play it in jellyfin media player and take a screenshot, open both screenshots for a side by side
Thanks for the response. So no good to use windows then. Would I have better luck with Jellyfin player in Linux? As far as I'm aware HDR isn't supported in Linux either.
If I want to play 4k HDR 7.1 bluray rips what is my best client option?
you are quite right about linux as well, x86* in general
the only devices i know for a fact that will do proper HDR up to HDR10+ is android, with the bonus that most can also do Dolby Vision
i used FireTV Cube for years, it works
i replaced with Zidoo Z9X Pro, it works better but requires a fork to work with jellyfin
CoreELEC can do it but that still requires an android device (amlogic based)
i don't think apple devices work but that's not a fact more of an impression i get, never owned one
RE: HDR directplay - TheDreadPirate - 2024-01-15
Looks like we missed each other. Give Jellyfin MPV Shim a try. My understanding is that there are some limitations with how JMP renders video that makes displaying actual HDR impossible. But MPV Shim doesn't have those limitations.
https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-mpv-shim/releases